That was a funny video with Mr. 9% singing to Scooter in some lounge. Cheney is no Humphrey Bogart. Now, hopefully in the future the American people will sing a song for Cheney if and when he is removed from office called: Dick is just a dick.

"Unfortunately when you consistently underinvest in roads and bridges ... this is the dangerous consequence," Cohen said of Wednesday's deadly Mississippi River bridge collapse in Minneapolis. He said engineers have estimated $75 billion a year is needed just to keep highways and bridges from further deterioration, but that only around $60 billion a year is being provided.

The federal government(AKA BUSHCO) provides 80 percent of the money for construction , repair and maintenance of the so-called federal-aid highway system including Interstate highways and bridges. But states set priorities and handle construction and maintenance contracts.

The first and last sites are creepy, but if anything happens this guy has been warning people. I'm just saying. He wrote in that one article about it would not be airplanes. Who the hell is this guy anyway?

Even Walmart's has a pharmacy. All she had to do was ask the pharmacist for a cream to heal her skin.

Your skin is the first line of defense against disease. Your body is essentially a tube; dry keratinous skin outside and wet permeable skin inside (mouth-esophagus-stomach-etc...) The outer skin is essentially a SKIN BEAKER to hold the sum of the chemical reactions that constitute life. The wet inner skin is where 99% of the chemical processes take place; digestion,excretion, exchange of gases and fluids, etc.

Why on earth shop at Walmart? The merchandise is inferior. The clientele is base and vulgar. The employees are working like Roman slaves rowing a ship, and the greeters are all old or handicapped.

A horrible place to shop.

The poor must live too.

But with human dignity.

This woman has low self-esteem. And either needs to live on the cheap or is cheap.

"The technology revolution has transformed organizations across the private sector, but not ours, not fully, not yet. We are, as they say, tangled in our anchor chain. Our financial systems are decades old. According to some estimates, we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions. We cannot share information from floor to floor in this building because it's stored on dozens of technological systems that are inaccessible or incompatible."

"They know the taxpayers deserve better. Every dollar we spend was entrusted to us by a taxpayer who earned it by creating something of value with sweat and skill -- a cashier in Chicago, a waitress in San Francisco. An average American family works an entire year to generate $6,000 in income taxes. Here we spill many times that amount every hour by duplication and by inattention.

That's wrong. It's wrong because national defense depends on public trust, and trust, in turn, hinges on respect for the hardworking people of America and the tax dollars they earn. We need to protect them and their efforts.

Waste drains resources from training and tanks, from infrastructure and intelligence, from helicopters and housing. Outdated systems crush ideas that could save a life. Redundant processes prevent us from adapting to evolving threats with the speed and agility that today's world demands. "

"There's a myth, sort of a legend, that money enters this building and disappears, like a bright light into a black hole, never to be seen again. In truth, there is a real person at the other end of every dollar, a real person who's in charge of every domain, and that means that there will be real consequences from, and real resistance to, fundamental change. We will not complete this work in one year, or five years, or even eight years. An institution built with trillions of dollars over decades of time does not turn on a dime. Some say it's like turning a battleship. I suspect it's more difficult."

Brief on the HBO movie/Council on Global Affairs viewing on "Hiroshima. Airs on HBO, August 6.

FDR started the nuclear arms race, because he feared (rightfully so) that the Germans were going use nukes.

Hiroshima's bomb, U-235 and the folling day Nagasaki's bomb, Pu-239; were developed concurrently at Los Alamos. The scientific community at-large, wasn't aware that their partner, the DoD was working with fissionable plutonium for a bomb, right there, at Los Alamos.

The bomb that fell on Hiroshima made the Japanese take notice.

The 2nd bomb, on the next day, fell on Nagasaki scared the Japanese into surrender and won the war.

There was deception. Were there lies? Probably. Lies in the direction of the truth?

Lies to gain an advantaqe. It's not quite so simple.

Is it OK to lie, to protect yourself.

Are the evasion and lies about "data mining" an abuse of power or a manipulation for our own good?

Lots of lawyerly-types here. Does the law have a mechinism that can be invoked to protect one's vulnerbility while still telling the truth? I'll check back next week

Thank you for the additional research and tech support. I wondered about its context.

[Rumsfeld: We want precision.]

[Rumsfeld: But I would think a good analyst would hypothesize that something might be true and then ask the same questions down that track, and then hypothesize that something else might be true and ask the same questions down that track. If I were an analyst, a professional analyst instead of an amateur analyst, I would do that. I would put myself in the shoes of people who might want to do something a different way, and end up down that different track, and then say, "Well, how do I feel about all that?" and weigh them against each other and then make an assessment.]

Ashcroft Plans Stiff Punishment for Those Who Leak Secrets, by David Savage, Los Angeles Times, October 24, 2002. "Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft said Wednesday he plans a new and more aggressive effort to punish those who leak national security secrets, but he told Congress he does not need new legislation to do so."

In advocating war with Iraq, Libby was known for dismissing those within the bureaucracy who opposed him, whether at the CIA, State Department, or other agencies. Supporters say that even if Libby is charged by the grand jury in the CIA leak case, he waged less a personal campaign against Wilson and Plame than one that reflected a personal antipathy toward critics in general.

just glad I forgot about that when looking at the weasel-feel sorry for him? no thanks, saving mine for desert rat and the people of Iraq

CHS over at FDL is talking about her Louboutins and wanting to buy an iPhone. Previously she was talking about her new car and her new huge flat screen TV. Remind me to not send FDL anymore contributions. They're doing much better than their readers.

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